With the current CVS, I get surprising results Python 2.0b1 (#47, Sep 14 2000, 08:51:18) [GCC 2.95.2 19991024 (release)] on linux2 Type "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information. >>> 1*1 Traceback (most recent call last): File "<stdin>", line 1, in ? OverflowError: integer multiplication What is causing this exception? Curious, Martin